Ros Lehman

Tracking down brown bears in Alaska or kicking down doors in Hollywood — Tasmanian writer Bradley Trevor Greive has done it all.

St George The Martyr looks like a postcard from a faraway island, but sits next to a fast food outlet in South Hobart. Inside it’s covered in coloured icons.

St George The Martyr looks like a postcard from a faraway island, but sits next to a fast food outlet in South Hobart. Inside it’s covered in coloured icons.

Young surfers at Kingston Beach use the local pontoon to help catch waves, with the platform breaking free from its moorings after wild weather in Tasmania.

With talks progressing between Tasmania and New Zealand to set up a COVID-19-safe travel bubble, we look at what would entice eco-travellers and Instagrammers to visit the locations that are — in many ways — similar but oh so different.

More than a century ago, dozens of elaborately decorated huts dotted the gentle slops of Hobart’s kunanyi/Mount Wellington. One woman is determined to see they are not forgotten.

A Queenslander and a Tasmanian are named as the Targa competitors killed on the final day of the race, a day after a New South Wales driver died while competing.

Australia’s new $528 million icebreaker Nuyina slips quietly into Hobart after celebrations to welcome it are put on ice by a snap COVID-19 lockdown.

The mother of Shayla Phillips, the four-year-old girl who was found after being lost for two days in the Tasmanian bush, says her “precious baby girl” is doing well, apart from having “a few bruises, scratches, bites”.

Tasmania might have seemed a long way from the threat of invasion in WWII, but all that changed in 1942. A Japanese plane flew over Hobart and air raid shelters and trenches were hastily constructed.

Finding a spotted handfish in the wild can be like looking for a needle in a haystack, so when one washed up on a beach in Tasmania, and although dead, it still had scientists excited.